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36 Cards in this Set
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Le Loi
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Vietnamese military leader.
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Ho Chi Minh
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Chinese dude
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Vietminh
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Vietnam
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Domino theory
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Idea of communism taking over.
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Ngo Dinh Diem
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Former government official under the french.
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Vietcong
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Members of the rebel force
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Robert S. McNamara
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Secretary of Defense
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Tonkin Gulf Restoration
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Gave the president authority to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against forces of the US.
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Escalation
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Buildup of US military forces
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Operation Rolling Thunder
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Bombing campaign against military targets in the North.
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Ho Chi Minh Trail
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A network of jungle paths.
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Defoliants
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Chemicals that strip the land of vegetation.
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Search-and-destroy missions
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Search and destroy
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Pacification
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Policy of moving vietnamese people from their villages and then burning them.
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hawks
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people who supported the wars goals.
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doves
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people who opposed the war
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Students for a Democratic Society
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Protested against the war.
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J. William Fulbright
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Dove Senator of Arkansas
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Tet Offensive
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Offensive thought to bring down the South Vietnamese government as the people rallied.
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William Westmoreland
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Commander of US forces in Vietnam
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Eugene McCarthy
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Critic of the war
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Robert F. Kennedy
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Senator and brother to J.F.K.
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Richard J. Daley
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Chicago mayor
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Richard Nixon
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Republican presidential candidate
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George Wallace
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Ran as a candidate for the American Independent Party
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Henry Kissinger
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Foreign policy adviser for Nixon
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Vietnamization
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Plan, which involved turning over the fighting to the South Vietnamese
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Le Duc Tho
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Revolutionary leader of North Vietnam
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Kent State Shootings
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National guard killed 4 and injured 9 students for walking across campus
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Pentagon Papers
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Documents revealed that the government had frequently misled the American people about the course of war.
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George McGovern
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Senator from South Dakota
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Twenty-sixth Amendment
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Lowered the voting age to 18
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Le Ly Hayslip
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Survivor of the Vietnam war
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War Powers Act
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Reaffirmed Congress's constitutional right to declare war by setting a 60 day limit on the presidential commitment of US troops to foreign conflicts.
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Vietnam Veterans Memorial
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Memorial for those who served the the Vietnam war
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Maya Ying Lin
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Designed the Vietnam Memorial
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